@ Chukhuma, Precision Agriculture is a fully online 12-week noncredit course that provides knowledge from which practitioners working in agriculture can better understand the science of site- specific farming to help themselves, their customers, and their companies. SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Grant) is funding such type of training.

Precision agriculture is one of the beautiful and modern subjects in terms of technology, for example, the use of a drone plane as well as the use of sensors with it for measurements. Sensors are cheap, but the plane is expensive.

As for financing, you must have a business plan or idea that addresses a problem and present it to companies specialized in agricultural matters that can give you the funding to work on solving the problem

The lure of the technology of precision agriculture is powerful. However, to really employ it effectively, you also need a sound understanding of soils and soil processes (eg. water relationships in soil, nutrient availability and transport, etc.), plant physiology and growth relationships, soil and plant relationships as well as environmental interactions with plants and soils. Without understanding the object of the applications of the technology available, the technology alone will not improve agricultural production to any significant extent.

@ Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma

I think that the answer to your question strongly depends on what kind of practical training on precision agriculture you are looking for. If you are interested in the use of precision agriculture technologies in a research context and the latest innovations in the field, you may contact research groups in your country or abroad that are working on the technologies you are interested in, you may get the opportunity to visit them as an academic guest. If you are more interested in the application of precision farming in practical agriculture, I would suggest you to contact manufacturers of the respective equipment. They usually offer courses where farmers can learn how to use their products, and may even run entire demonstration and training farms (e.g. the AGCO future farm in Zambia https://agcofuturefarm.com/about).

In my country, farmers often outsource activities such as sowing, fertilization or spraying to farm contractors having state-of-the-art machinery to avoid the high costs associated with the purchase of precision farming equipment such as variable-rate fertilizer spreaders. If there is an association of farm contractors inyour or nearby countries, it may be worthwile to ask them about possible training opportunities.